Grill Maestro

Ever wonder how they make that liquid smoke flavoring? Wonder no more and watch this video courtesy of bbqtv:

The Virtual Weber Bullet site is a cornucopia of useful information about the Weber Smokey Mountain smoker, I turn to it at least once a week to find some useful tips and tricks about grilling and smoking with the WSM. This week, I discovered a clever little hack by Mike Willsey of S.C. called the [...]

For Memorial Day weekend, I put together the Brinkmann SmokeN Grill Charcoal Smoker and Grill courtesy of Home Depot (get it there, if you want it, instead of Amazon.com, it’s only around $35 now; I provided the link for additional details) in order to provide this review of its features.
Overall, it’s a very affordable smoker [...]

A few weeks ago I was contacted by Home Depot’s PR firm about their new line of grill products and was offered the Brinkman Smoke N’ Grill to try out. So, this weekend I will be firing up the little guy on some beef ribs and pork tenderloin and letting you all know what I [...]

This tip is helpful for those of us who are novices to smoking and aren’t very good at gauging how much charcoal to burn to hit the sweet temperature spot. The tip is to keep a second grill ready on the side so that you can light additional charcoal without disturbing the peace that you [...]

Over at WhiteTrashBBQ, WTBBQ writes a recipe by Bruce Schatte in which Bruce says the following about Red Butcher Paper in a recipe about smoking brisket:
This recipe calls for red butcher paper, which Bruce Schatte says is the secret to the moistness and flavor of his brisket - a cut of meat that is notoriously [...]

One of the mistakes I made when I used the Weber Smoker for the first time was one that plenty of novice smokers make - I didn’t smoke the wood chips long enough! If you don’t smoke the chips long enough, they burn off way too quickly and you end up churning through more chips [...]

Those seven woods listed in the title (Alder, Cherry, Hickory, Maple, Mesquite, Oak, and Pecan) are the seven most popular types of wood you can use in your smoker and each one imparts a slightly different flavor to your meats. A particular type of wood and its flavor works well with different types of meat [...]

Ugh, so when I used my smoker two weeks ago (I’m still eating beef and pork from it, it’s sooooo good), one of the things I learned was that putting something like beef in a smoker for several hours tends to dry things out. Even at regular 200 degree heat with apple juice, cooking something [...]

My friend and I have been talking about getting a hardcore smoker and I think I’m going to get the one that I always see getting talked about, the Weber 2820 Smokey Mountain Cooker/Smoker. You might recall I reviewed the Smokenator (part 2) a little while back and gave it very favorable reviews. I think [...]